The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-20
GIVEN UP.
The Charles Henry Supposed to Have
Gone Down.

The Charles Henry Supposed to Have
Gone Down.
From the Pensacola (Fld.) Commercial.
During the gale of three weeks ago, in
which the fishing smack H. 5. Rowe was
wrecked, there were at sea the fishing
schooners Sarah /. Harding, Emma b.,
Ada, Mantle, albert Haley, supposed and
Leonora and the sloop Charles Henry. 1t
will be remembered by the readers OF the
Commercial that considerable anxiety was
felt for some days afterward as to their
safety. Every one of them however, with
one exception, made harbor safely and re-
ported at home, having rough experience,
but fortunately, no loss Of life.
The one exception is the sloop Charles
Henry, which is out twenty-eight days to-
day, and no tidings of her since the gale
have ever come TO hand. 1t was supposed
for a time that all the vessels had reported
in safety, as it was several times currently
rumOred that the Charles Henry had ar
rived at Mobile, but all doubts in this con-
nection were set at rest this morning by
letter from John Barbich. Mobile, to War
ren a. Co.. of this city, which states that
the vessel has not reported since the gale.
The Charles Henry was last seen by Capt.
Joe Fish, of the smack Emma Il. she was
then riding at anchor, with trl-sall set, oil
Phillips Inlet, near the spot were the Rowe
went on the beach 1t is possible she
dragged ashore, losing the crew, and the
tact that no tidings have been received of
the wreck may be attributed to the sparsely
settled condition Of the country along the
beach from Phillips Inlet to st. Andrews
Bay, but it is more probable that she went
down at anchor There was heavy sea
rolling in from the southwark, and expert
enced men say the latter theory is most
probably correct.
Her crew consisted of five men, including
the Captain They were:
Louis Verbeck, Captain, of Mobile, aged
about 81 years.
Roger Spinnagio, an Italian, aged about
% years.
Charles Coombs, of Mobile aged about 40
years.
Joe Lazzaro, a Portuguese, aged about AZ
years He leaves wife and one child in
this city.
A Swede, known only as Jack" aged
about "a years.
Capt. Verbeck is said to have been
very stubborn man, yet afraid of deep wa
ter. and those who know him best think he
refused to scud before the gale to sea, pre-
ferring to take his chances near the shore,
and that finding his vessel pitching under,
his stubborn nature prompted him to hold
on at all hazard, and he held on until the
vessel went to the bottom with all on board.
If such was the position in which he was
placed, he could have slipped his cable and
beached the smack, as was done in the case
OF the H. s. Rowe, and thereby have saved
the lives of himself and crew. However, it
were uncharitable to suppose that Capt
Verbeclx did anything but what he thought
was right, considering his duty not alone to
himself and crew, but to the owners of his
vessel as well.
Capt. Joe Fish, of the Emma B., who
arrived this morning, reports seeing lot
of wrcckage at sea, just off Phillips Inlet,
yesterday, among which was bowsprit
which. he thinks might have belonged to
smack. sit may have been the Charles
Henry's," said Capt. Fish. ''If she went
down at anchor, it is possible that she is
breaking to pieces, and the wreckage saw
may have belonged to her"